20.10.09 Bandar Abbas

Homesick in Bandar Abbas.
Susanne and I went to check our mail, after a late breakfast at 8.30 am. Since it is so hot here, just like Mangalore, as soon as we step out of the hotel we catch a cab. We have finally figured out the system here in Iran with cabs. We just walk out on the road, wave a few times, a car stops, we jump in tell him where you want to go, and give him 10000 Rials, equal to 1 $. This system is great every car on the road is a taxi and people drive you anywhere you want and they try and even talk to you. Had lunch at a shopping mall, went for a walk and had Burgers and ice cream again. Played cards and drank beers in the evening.
The secret of Iranians Beers: Beers are non alcoholic with different tastes, like strawberry, mango, Lemon etc. You buy a beer and close your eyes for a few seconds you gulp it down, close your eyes for a few seconds again and you feel pissed. What irony even the kids drink beers here. At the restaurants are served in big beer mugs, children, women and all drink it. I have never drunk so many beers in my life and enjoied them so much and even got a buzz. Must be the air round here. It is easier asking for a stiff drink at a Mosque than buying any alcohol in this country, but if you are a catholic you can drink you own alcohol as long as no Muslims are there with you, but where to get it, what irony.

Bandar Abbas i venteposition
Nu venter vi bare på at komme hjem… I dag har vi bare drysset rundt i byen, spillet kort, flyttet hen i en suite, hvor vi alle 4 kan være med al vores habengut. Bandar Abbas er ulidelige varm, så vi får kørt meget med taxa.
I nogle af de andre byer har vi også kørt med private i deres biler, men hvor vi troede de kørte en slags pirattaxa. Her i Bandar Abbas har vi endeligt gennemskuet systemet, – langt de fleste iranere, der lige er ude at køre, kører gerne lige en detour og tjener lidt ekstra. Og jeg mener lidt. Vi kan komme fra hotellet og til et andet sted i byen for det der svarer til 5 kroner. Samtidigt får vi så lige en mere eller mindre forståelig snak med en iraner. Om aftenen var vi en tur i basaren, Ulrikka købte en rygsæk. Så spiste vi på vores favorit grill bar (noget ala Mc’Donalds) og derefter var vi i isbutikken og få vores sædvanlige isdessert. Hjemme på hotellet igen, sluttede vi dagen af med endnu et spil Kanasta.